Improvement in broilers



E. B. PHELPS & J. P..MOLEA'N. BROILER.

No. 112,846. Patented Mar. 21-, 1871.

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EDWARD B. PHELPS AND JAMES 1 MCLEAN, Oil BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 112,846 dated lliereh 21, '1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN BROILERS.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit knownthat we, EnwlumfB. Pumps and James P. MCLEAN, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement; in Independent (lovers for Broilin g Apparatus; and we hereby. declare in what manner the same are to be constructed; and to enable the public to understand the natureofpur improved invention, and to enable those skilled in the mechanic arts to construct the same, we have prepared the following specification, with accompanying drawing, which is lettered to correspond with and form a part of the same, to wit:

Figure l is a perspective drawing of our improved independent cover A, having a swinging damper, E, and bottom-slide, F F, to passunder the gridiron B, so as to out off the direct action of the fire 0 upon the bars of the gridiron, excepting those which support the meat to be broiled. i

Figure 2 is a front elevation of our improved inde- 'pendent cover A, provided with horizontal slides or dampers G G in lieu of the swinging damper-E, fig. 1, if preferred, to regulate the admission 'of cold air into the cover during the process'of broiling.

F" F"i are the bottom 'c'ut-ofi slides or dampers. O is-the fire under the' rneat.

vWe are aware that attached covers to gridirons for broiling purposes, andv simple detached covers (similar to pot-covers) are in common use for covering broilers, and that attached or detached covers are employed for frying, roasting, boiling, baking, stewing, "8m, in Jigs. P. 'llIQLEANs application for a patented-lowed August 24, 1870. Neither of these are inteud'edto form a part of this application; but our invention consists in the construction of an independent cover, A, provided with a swinging damper, E, or dampers G G, with or without regulatingcut-oifsF F", by which means we are enabled to bring the meat in close proximity to the direct fire sin-face, and thereby more efi'ectually broil and preserve the flavor of the same; therefore,

What we claim as our improved invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patentof the United States, is-

damper E or slide-damperaG G, with or without the regulating cut-ofls-F h",'all constructed, arranged, and operating in the manner and for the ostensible purpose of broiling meat, Sec.

In'testiinony whereof we hereunto subscribe our names in the presence of .two witnesses.

- EDWD. B. PHELPS.

JAMES P. MGLEAN,

Witnesses:

J. RITCHIE MCLEAN, ANNE S. McLnm.

The independent cover A or A, with swinging 

